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Gretchen Wilson defines a redneck woman as a strong, independent woman. So it figures Wilson has taken control of her career and her own record label, called Redneck Records. Before and after the school day, she says, she's a typical mom. Her daughter, who will be 13 in November, likes to get to school early. So they leave the house at about 7 a.m. to get her there at 7:20. Wilson runs Redneck Records from the office of her Tennessee home. I work most of the hours while she's at school, Wilson said in a phone call Monday morning.

Gretchen Wilson defines a redneck woman as a strong, independent woman. So it figures Wilson has taken control of her career and her own record label, called Redneck Records. Before and after the school day, she says, she's a “typical mom.” Her daughter, who will be 13 in November, likes to get to school early. So they leave the house at about 7 a.m. to get her there at 7:20. Wilson runs Redneck Records from the office of her Tennessee home. “I work most of the hours while she's at school,” Wilson said in a phone call Monday morning.

Darrell Deneke remembers the initial skepticism years ago about using flea beetles to control leafy spurge, one of the Upper Midwest's most dangerous weeds. "But biocontrols are pretty well accepted now. People understand that they work," says Deneke, integrated pest management program coordinator for the South Dakota State University Extension Service. Deneke and others have begun another annual flea beetle collection for use on leafy spurge. The beetles are collected with sweep nets in June or early July in places where they're well- established, then transferred to other places where they're needed.

Birds can have a huge impact on a dairy farm's profitability if they aren't controlled. For example, starlings consume about 1.8 pounds of feed per month, says J.W. Schroeder, North Dakota State University Extension Service dairy specialist. One pound of that comes directly out of the feed bunk. Plus, starlings often consume the more expensive components in the ration, such as protein pellets or grain, and seldom consume the roughage. Birds also pose a threat by carrying disease-causing microorganisms and contaminating product areas with droppings, feathers or external parasites such as mites.

Even though spring warm-up has been delayed, the mild winter suggests we could have overwintered a lot of insect eggs, possibly leading to an onslaught of summer bugs such as flies. We should prepare for a long and possibly heavy load of face and horn flies on pasture cattle this summer. Here are some tips and suggestions for fly control. There are various options available, but it is important to evaluate these and determine which is going to give you the best control in your situation.

Article by Darrell Deneke with contributions from Mark Rosenberg. Volunteer soybeans in corn is a concern for some growers this season. In some cases we saw shattering during soybean harvest last fall and those seeds are germinating in the newly planted corn this spring. This really makes that soybean a weed in that corn field, and because in most cases it was glyphosate resistant soybeans the glyphosate treatments this fall were not effective on the soybean seedlings. This is a similar situation when we see volunteer corn in soybeans except we need to look a different group of herbicide chemistries to solve the problem.

The large number of sensational sexual misconduct cases in recent years suggests that men have a problem controlling their libidos. Misandrists - men-haters - will try to cast this as a power-over-women issue, but their simplistic, hateful point of view is disputed by obvious facts. It is difficult to see how much procreation would take place without male and female sexual desire. Procreation is kind of important to the species. Those who claim that women don't desire sex, but are coerced into it by a male-dominated society, know different women than I. Some diseases are diagnosed, in part, by loss of sexual desire.

There were some interesting comments made by some of the members of the Game, Fish and Parks Department about not wanting hunters to be allowed to use unplugged shotguns to help reduce the number of these local Canada geese. One thing people need to understand about the GFP, is they want the revenue from selling hunting and fishing licenses, but they really do not want anyone to shoot or catch any of "their" wildlife or fish. We currently have over three times the GFP goal population of these crop destroying pests, but yet the GFP wants to hinder the chances of the numbers of these geese ever being reduced.

A producer recently called to ask when was the best time to spray alfalfa weevil adults. There are a few alfalfa producers who seem to have discovered that spraying the adults reduces the incidence and feeding damage of the larvae. While there may be some truth to it, there are some inherent problems with this practice. SDSU Extension Entomologist, Ada Szczepaniec, reports that a number of things can happen to adversely affect the adults laying eggs, the eggs hatching, the larvae surviving, etc. Warm and wet springs promote the growth of pathogens that attack the larvae so weather conditions and soil moisture play a role in the severity of alfalfa weevil infestations.

By PAUL JOHNSON, Agronomy/Crops Field Specialist,Codington County Extension Complex | April 26, 2013

Noxious weed control in pastures CRP and non-crop land is becoming a challenge. A lot of commercial spray businesses are no longer spraying these areas. If they are, there may be restrictions on the time they will spray, what products they will spray or they may only spray if they also have all of the rest of your spraying business. These restrictions are making spraying more difficult and limited. It is still the law, however, to control noxious weeds. Not being able to find a sprayer is not a valid reason to not spray.